In a short time, everyone had eaten the pastries in the food box.
Si Zi looked at Qin Ming with some unfinished thoughts and said:
"Brother Qin Ming, Sizi is not full, is there anything left?"
Li Tai and Li Zhi also looked at Qin Ming eagerly after hearing this. Qin Ming ignored the looks of the two princes. He stretched out his hand and tapped Sizi's little nose and said:
"Sizi, this pastry cannot be eaten as food. But if Sizi wants to eat it in the future, he can ask the chef in the house to come to my house and learn from it."
Hearing this, Si Zi hugged Qin Ming's neck, kissed him on the face and said:
"Brother Qin Ming is the best. When Sizi grows up, how about he also marries brother Qin Ming?"
Qin Ming looked at the little dumpling in his arms fondly and said:
"Sizi, you have to eat well in the future so that you can grow up early."
Si Zi's eyes narrowed with laughter when he heard this.
"Well, Si Zi listens to brother Qin Ming."
Qin Ming smiled and touched Si Zi's head. Only then did he remember that he was here to give a New Year gift. So she took out a gift list from her pocket and handed it to Xiao Changxi, and then said to Queen Changsun:
"Auntie, these are some New Year gifts specially prepared by my nephew for you and your uncle. Please accept them as my nephew's thoughts."
Empress Changsun nodded, took the gift list from Xiao Changxi's hand and looked at it.
When she found out that in addition to soap and Erguotou, there were about ten down jackets on the gift list, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, this child is serious.
When she saw thirty fireworks written at the end of the gift list, she couldn't help but frown. She didn't understand why there were fireworks in Qin Ming's gift list, and shouldn't fireworks only be set off in March?
Could it be that Qin Ming planted it in the greenhouse? Li Shimin saw Empress Changsun and looked at the gift list in a daze, so he came over and asked:
"Guanyin Maid, what did you see that made you so entranced?"
After hearing this, Empress Changsun pointed to the fireworks on the gift list, and Li Shimin was also very curious when she saw it. He has never seen anyone give this as a New Year gift.
So he looked at Qin Ming curiously and asked:
"My dear nephew, don't these fireworks only go off every March? How did you cultivate them? And why do you give us fireworks?"
Qin Ming was stunned when he heard this. Are these fireworks still a kind of flower? Then he thought of a poem he had learned as a child.
While thinking about it, he whispered:
"My old friend bids farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower in the west. Fireworks descend on Yangzhou in March."
It seems that Li Er and Chang Sun mistook the fireworks for some kind of southern flower.
Just as he was about to explain, Si Zi in his arms asked:
"Brother Qin Ming, where is the Yellow Crane Tower?"
Li Chengqian also looked at Qin Ming when he heard this. Although he didn't hear clearly what Qin Ming was muttering just now, it didn't affect his curiosity.
Qin Ming looked at the curious baby in his arms and said:
"Yellow Crane Tower is a very famous ancient building in the south. When you have the opportunity in the future, brother Qin Ming will take you there to see it."
Li Tai, who had been sitting next to Qin Ming after eating the pastries, interrupted at this time:
"What you just read seems to be a poem, right? An old friend bids farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and fireworks descend to Yangzhou in March. Did you write this poem? What are the last two sentences?"
Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this. He was a person who loved poetry. When he heard these two sentences read by Li Tai, he felt that Qin Ming's poem was very artistic.
So he no longer cared about the fireworks Qin Ming sent, and asked:
"Good poem, good poem. My dear nephew, please tell me the last two sentences. I will give you a taste."
Qin Ming was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that the little fat man would remember it after hearing it once. When he was in school, he memorized it for a long time before he memorized this poem.
However, when he saw several people present, including Xiao Changxi, looking at him expectantly, he thought for a moment, thought about it, and then said:
"The shadow of the lone sail in the distance is gone in the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River can be seen flowing in the sky."
Everyone couldn't help but marvel when they heard this. This poem was so well written and had a strong sense of imagery. It was a rare and good poem.
After listening to this poem, Li Chengqian became even more curious about Qin Ming. From this poem, he judged that Qin Ming should be a scholar.
After hearing this, Empress Changsun frowned. She looked at Qin Ming and asked softly:
"My dear nephew, did you write this poem?"
Qin Ming shook his head when he heard this and said:
"No, my nephew accidentally read this poem from a book."
The location description in this poem is so clear that Qin Ming dare not misidentify it. After all, Li Er must have sent someone to investigate him and found out that he had never been to Jiangnan.
If you pretend to claim this poem, it might arouse suspicion.
After thinking for a while, he quickly changed the subject and said:
"By the way, Auntie, the fireworks on the gift list are not ordinary flowers, but a flower recently developed by my nephew's house, which can only be viewed at night."
"And these fireworks are especially suitable for viewing on the night of New Year's Eve. My nephew gave it to you because he thought that during the Chinese New Year, my aunt and her family can watch it together in the yard after the New Year's dinner."
Li Shimin became interested after hearing this, so he asked curiously:
"A flower that can only be seen at night? Uncle has never seen this kind of flower. My dear nephew, please tell me in detail."
Qin Ming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw everyone's curiosity and returned to the fireworks. He looked at everyone in the room with a smile, and then said with a smile:
"The principle of this firework is very simple. It is a ball wrapped with gunpowder and various metal ores. It rises into the sky with the help of the thrust generated by the explosion of gunpowder. After the explosion, the air and metal ores rub to emit light of different colors."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. They felt that they knew every word Qin Ming said, but when Qin Ming put it together, they didn't understand what it meant.
The little fat man on the side also felt a little confused. He asked curiously:
"Qin...Brother Qin, what you can say, I...I haven't figured it out no matter how hard I think about it. Can you tell us more in detail?"
Qin Ming looked at the confused eyes of everyone, thought for a while and said:
"Uncle Li, Aunt Li, how about this? Why don't I go get a firework and go to the yard and I'll demonstrate it to you and you'll understand."
Qin Ming saw everyone nodding, so he got up and followed Yue Chan to the front yard to get fireworks.
On the way, Xiao Changxi pulled Qin Ming's sleeve and said:
"Sir, did you write that poem yourself?"
When Qin Ming heard this, he looked at Yue Chan in front of him and saw that she did not look back at him, so he nodded towards Xiao Changxi.
When Xiao Changxi saw Qin Ming nodding, her face suddenly showed an expression that I knew.
When Qin Ming saw that Yuechan didn't look back at them, and saw that there was no one else around, he secretly kissed Xiao Changxi on the face when she wasn't paying attention.
Xiao Changxi was attacked by Qin Ming. She quickly looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that no one had noticed. Because she didn't dare to say anything in other people's houses, so she could only give Qin Ming an angry look.
A few moments,
Qin Ming brought back a metal launching barrel from the front yard, and a spherical firework returned to the yard.
